Famous cryptographers
specialist on techniques for secure communication in the presence of third parties
29 people
Thomas Jefferson
1743
– 1826
· Age 83
Deceased
Alan Turing
1912
– 1954
· Age 41
Deceased
Leon Battista Alberti
1404
– 1472
· Age 68
Deceased
Claude Shannon
1916
– 2001
· Age 84
Deceased
François Viète
1540
– 1603
· Age 63
Deceased
Subhash Kak
1947
· Age 78
Alive
Charles Wheatstone
1802
– 1875
· Age 73
Deceased
Shafrira Goldwasser
1958
· Age 67
Alive
Jim Simons
1938
– 2024
· Age 86
Deceased
Giambattista della Porta
1535
– 1615
· Age 80
Deceased
John Wilkins
1614
– 1672
· Age 58
Deceased
Whitfield Diffie
1944
· Age 81
Alive
Johannes Trithemius
1462
– 1516
· Age 54
Deceased
Leonard Adleman
1945
· Age 80
Alive
Martin Edward Hellman
1945
· Age 80
Alive
Michael O. Rabin
1931
· Age 94
Alive
Bruce Schneier
1963
· Age 63
Alive
Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi
0718
– 0786
· Age 68
Deceased
Phil Zimmermann
1954
· Age 72
Alive
Blaise de Vigenère
1523
– 1596
· Age 72
Deceased
Silvio Micali
1954
· Age 71
Alive
Auguste Kerckhoffs
1835
– 1903
· Age 68
Deceased
Augustus the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
1579
– 1666
· Age 87
Deceased
I
I. J. Good
1916
– 2009
· Age 92
Deceased
Henryk Zygalski
1908
– 1978
· Age 70
Deceased
Source: Wikidata Q15442776